User talk:DorisH

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Jean-Paul 11:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

1 Mufflon, translation from German
2 Thank you!
3 Reto Romansch
4 Grameen Bank, GA Nominee
5 Undo Mistake?
6 Yo, dear
7 Parsifal
8 Thanks
9 Tax
10 Wikipedia:Peer review/Shahbag

[edit] Mufflon, translation from German

Thanks for letting me know the correct procedure. Woodsstock 15:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thanks for passing Equine nutrition for GA. I am going into the article and making some of the changes you recommended. You are definitely right that "horses" is overused, trying to fix that without causing too much confusion -- That said, many sources were specific to horses and may not necessarily apply to ponies and mules (which is why they got their own section) and of course, there is nothing on zebras! <grin> I also realized I needed to not overuse nouns when a pronoun would do! Removed at least one grazing reference altogether, you are right, it was redundant. Trouble is in the horse world today, too many people think locking a horse up in a stall and letting it eat grain all day is kindness--yet it's the moral equivalent of shutting up a child in front of the TV all day with soda pop, potato chips, and cookies! So perhaps all those references are sort of a reminder to those in the horse world, but do sound repetitious and odd to the lay reader. I'll take a good look at this question, however. Beating it to death isn't good writing either.

Anyway, thanks again, and if you have further comments, please feel free to offer them; your suggestions were insightful and helpful. (And kindly worded too!) Montanabw 04:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reto Romansch

At first glance I thought it looked like a spelling variant, but you're probably right. I made an edit too hastily. Please change the redirect as you please. —Tokek 14:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grameen Bank, GA Nominee

I have made some changes to the article, mostly according to your suggestion on the talk page. But, couldn't find any source that cites the Saifur Rahman stuff as they are stated. He did have issues about micro finance, as far as newspaper reports go. I can actually replace the previous text with verifiable new text, or I can remove that unsourced part completely. On top of that, there may be massive scope for improvement that can be drawn from the official Website alone. Please, advise. I am a bit lost here, as I expected GA nomination to have at least some improvement drive attached, like those FACs have. Do I post requests to projects and user talk pages? Cheers. Aditya Kabir 17:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page

[edit] Undo Mistake?

You recently undid an edit I made to Wall Street Crash of 1929, and marked it as vandalism. I think you made a mistake, but as this was my first Wikipedia edit, I thought I should ask in case I did in fact do something wrong.

My edit merely added the bold-faced word to the sentence quoted below in order to make the sentence syntactically correct.

The market did not return to pre-1929 levels until late 1954, and was lower at its July 8, 1932 nadir than it had been since the 1800s.

Please respond to my talk page.

Thanks, --Hammond.guerin 20:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yo, dear

Aditya Kabir has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
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Yo, Doris. Thanks for that wet trout slap. I am studying my WikiLove right at this moment (especially, since User:Zora, my inspiration, refuses to come back), and that trout meant a lot more to me than a thousand cool explanations. Thanks again. Now, can you advise on how do I really get those collaboration up and running? Aditya Kabir 15:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. One more question - is that Japanese that follows your name? What does it say? Aditya Kabir 16:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parsifal

It failed because it's too long. Criteria says 25 KB. It's 35 KB. Feel free to trim it down and renominate it. I've passed articles today too. GreenJoe 17:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm willing to accept that I may have been wrong on the GA criteria about length. You may readd it. GreenJoe 18:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Your post to the talk page of Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath was most appreciated. It filled me in the guidelines for determining the naming convention. At least I am comfortable with it. WP:MOSBIO suggests that an autobiography as a source is OK if it is reliable. I think the autobiography of YGS is really dodgy in many respects, but maybe it is OK if no reasonably outlandish claims are included or referenced.(?) Given that the article has withstood two attempts at AfD, I think it might be best to just prune the article down to the basics and let it stand. If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know. Thanks again. -Vritti 06:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)